Tourist Paradise Research Articles

Ferenc Andai. In the Hour of Fate and Danger.

Ferenc Andai. <i>In the Hour of Fate and Danger</i>.

Analysis of Hotels Spatial Clustering in Bali: Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Application Noise (DBSCAN) Algorithm Approach

Bali is one of the hearts of tourism in Indonesia. The existence of the Covid-19 pandemic has made this tourist paradise also affected the wheels of the economy. Based on this, this study aims to determine the density clustering of one of the economic supporters in Bali, namely hospitality. The study began with the quadrant method and Ripley's K-Function to measure the distribution pattern of hospitality. From the results of the two methods, the distribution pattern of hotels in Bali is more towards clusters than random or regular distribution. If the point distribution pattern is more towards the cluster, it is continued with the Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Application Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm to form spatial clustering. In the DBSCAN algorithm, a combination of parameters, namely minimum points (MinPts) and epsilon (Eps), is carried out with evaluation using the silhouette average width value. From the results of the DBSCAN algorithm, the clustering results show that the distribution of hotels in Bali forms clusters and tends to approach the surrounding tourist attractions, such as near the beach, city market, and mountainous areas. It can help policymakers if they want to prioritize economic recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Qi-Long-Tian formula extract alleviates symptoms of acute high-altitude diseases via suppressing the inflammation responses in rat

BackgroundChinese Yunnan Province, located in the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, is a famous tourist paradise where acute high-altitude illness common occurs among lowland people visitors due to non-acclimatization to the acute hypobaric hypoxia (AHH) conditions. Traditional Chinese medicine, such as Qi-Long-Tian (QLT) formula, has shown effectiveness and safety in the treatment of acute high-altitude diseases. The aim of this study was to clarify the therapeutic mechanisms of this traditional formula using a rat model in a simulated plateau environment.MethodsFollowing testing, lung tissue samples were evaluated by hematoxylin–eosin staining and for biochemical characteristics. mRNA-Seq was used to compare differentially expressed genes in control rats, and in rats exposed to AHH and AHH with QLT treatment.ResultsInflammation-related effectors induced following QLT treatment for AHH included MMP9 and TIMP1, and involved several phosphorylation signaling pathways implicated in AHH pathogenesis such as PI3K/AKT and MAPK signaling.ConclusionThis study provides insights into the major signaling pathways induced by AHH and in the protective mechanisms involved in QLT formula activity.

Strategic Options for the Development of Ecotourism in the Danube Delta in the Context of Globalization

In Romania, there are major deficiencies in the understanding and especially in the ecological application of tourism, the problem of its unconsciousness and the lack of awareness of the population on this coordinate, which is why people do not realize its intrinsic value for the economy at present, but especially for the future. Each of us should “taste” nature, because living directly in nature, even for a few days, helps to see life in more optimistic colors, breathe better, think more freely, smile more, more credence and courage every second. This article highlighted the importance of sustainable tourism and ecotourism in the Danube Delta, which is an impressive tourist destination, a true paradise for tourists wishing to discover wildlife, a real challenge for nature lovers and maritime beauty region tourism, but also a real scientific interest. The effects of the globalization process have been also noticed at tourism industry level, fact which had generated a series of changes both in production area and even more in the tourism services consume area. Emphasis will be placed on the interdependence links between the development of ecotourism and globalization in the world, which will also contribute to its socio-economic consequences. The strategic options will take into account the impact of the globalization process applied to the case study of the Danube Delta.

Élaboration d’un guide touristique basé sur la culture de Jakarta pour des Francophones

&lt;p class="Keyword"&gt;Being capital of Indonesia,&#x0D; Jakarta is the center of government, trade and business. It is also the largest&#x0D; city in Indonesia that has large shopping centers that is why it has become the&#x0D; paradise for tourists who love to shop. Yet it has tourist places with cultural&#x0D; values that are as interesting as shops. It is regrettable that this is not&#x0D; well known by tourists. It is necessary that they have a tourist guide on&#x0D; Jakarta. A tourist guide or travel guide is a book that contains information&#x0D; about specific places, a region or a country and that can help tourists to make&#x0D; the discovery. It also makes it easier for them to find important, simple but&#x0D; useful information. In addition, it is a means to promote a country’s tourism&#x0D; wealth. In Jakarta, it is difficult to find tourist guides who can speak in&#x0D; French, but the number of Francophones who are in Jakarta is significant. Thus,&#x0D; this research aims to create a travel guide for Francophones who are in Jakarta&#x0D; or who will discover Jakarta. It is a research and development (&lt;i&gt;recherche et développement&lt;/i&gt;) whose data&#x0D; are derived from surveys of Francophones in Jakarta, tourist documents as well&#x0D; as interviews with a guide and staff of the Ministry of Tourism of Jakarta.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="Abstract"&gt;&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="Keyword"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

L’homme et la mer aux Yasawa (îles Fidji)

L’archipel des Yasawa est recemment devenu l’un des haut-lieux du tourisme a Fidji et le visage international de ce petit pays d’Oceanie. Cet article examine la maniere dont deux ensembles de phenomenes en partie lies — le developpement du tourisme et celui d’une preoccupation environnementale suscitee par l’essor economique du pays et le changement climatique — contribuent a y transformer les relations au monde marin, a partir de recherches conduites dans les villages de Yalobi et Vuake. Nous montrons que le tourisme accelere une certaine erosion du savoir coutumier relatif a la mer, tout en engendrant de nouveaux modes d’approche et d’usage du milieu marin — avec en particulier un essor de la peche commerciale, qui permet de reguler ou compenser certaines consequences du tourisme. Il apparait d’autre part que pour les villageois de Yalobi et Vuake, la preservation du milieu marin ne saurait seulement passer par des dispositifs restrictifs, comme les tabous de peche, que les Fidjiens sont actuellement invites a « redecouvrir ». Elle implique aussi des actions positives de l’Etat pour proteger les droits traditionnels d’exploitation de la mer, ainsi que le maintien de relations harmonieuses a la fois avec les entites spirituelles, qui tirent les fils de l’existence des hommes, et au sein des communautes insulaires.

Mirroring To The Greek’s Tourism after Economy Crisis: The Effect of Tourism Sector to Bangka Belitung GDRP

High dependency on tin mining is an economic problem in Bangka Belitung Islands province. The peak came after the issuance of tin mining restriction law almost a decade ago, hence Bangka Belitung is currently experiencing a slowdown in the rate of economic growth on an ongoing basis. One way out of this economic problem is to rely on tourism, since the demographically and geographically Bangka Belitung is a world tourist paradise. However, bad tourism management will actually increase development losses. Therefore, this paper will discuss the influence of Bangka Belitung tourism on its economy if tourism were a leading sector as applied in Greece in recent years. In addition, the characteristics of Greece, Santorini in this case, is not much different from Bangka Belitung Islands. In getting the answer from this problem, two methods of analysis are done, namely the Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) table and the formation of simple regression model related to tourism and economy of Bangka Belitung. The results obtained shows that Bangka Belitung's economy will grow positively due to its tourism influence, and with similar characteristics of Bangka Belitung with Santorini then the “4S tourism policy” (sun, sea, sand and seafood) can be applied in Bangka Belitung.

The beach as (hu)man limit in Gold Coast narrative fiction

Gold Coast beaches oscillate in the cultural imagination between everyday reality and a tourist’s paradise of ‘sun, surf and sex’ (Winchester and Everett 2000: 59). While these narratives of selfhood and becoming, egalitarianism and sexual liberation punctuate the media, Gold Coast literary fictions instead reveal the beach as a site of danger, wholly personifying the unknown. Within Amy Barker’s Omega Park, Melissa Lucashenko’s Steam Pigs, Georgia Savage’s The House Tibet and Matthew Condon’s Usher and A Night at the Pink Poodle, the beach is a ‘masculine’ space for testing the limit of the coastline and one’s own capacity for survival. This article undertakes a close textual analysis of these novels and surveys other Gold Coast fictions alongside spatial analysis of the Gold Coast coastline. These fictions suggest that the Gold Coast is not simply a holiday world or ‘Crime Capital’ in the cultural imagination, but a mythic space with violent memories, opening out onto an infinite horizon of conflict and estrangement.

The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896–1968

Miami has never fit neatly into the Old South. A North Carolina State University study found that it is the city where you are least likely to hear “y'all” in the former Confederacy. Miami was founded in 1896, thirty-one years after the end of the Civil War, by the oil mogul Henry Flagler. The first African Americans there came to build Flagler's railroad. But the city witnessed some of the worst racial violence in the nation, experienced four race riots from 1968 to 1992 and saw the kind of racial discrimination most often associated with other Deep South states. What made Miami different was the city leaders' goals: they wanted to implement the same Jim Crow practices as the rest of the South, while luring tourists and permanent residents from the North by creating a far different image. White leaders knew it would discourage tourists and prospective residents if the level of violence against African Americans mirrored other areas of the South—including north Florida. They adopted a strategy of holding the line on giving African American rights when they could and yielding as little as possible when they had no other choice. The priority of the white elites was the image of the city, which was drawing tourists from all over the world and billing itself as the “Gateway to Latin America.”

The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896–1968 by Chanelle N. Rose

<i>The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896–1968</i> by Chanelle N. Rose

The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America’s Tourist Paradise, 1896–1968 by Chanelle N. Rose

The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America’s Tourist Paradise, 1896–1968 by Chanelle N. Rose

Constructing Okinawa as Japan’s Hawai`i: From Honeymoon Boom to Resort Paradise

In this article, I analyze changing preferences for either Okinawa or Hawai`i as tourist paradise by tracing the history of the Japanese ‘honeymoon boom’ that developed starting in the 1960s. Taking a honeymoon trip only became customary in Japan when postwar baby-boomers reached marriageable age. These young couples generally followed the recommendations of travel agents in planning their honeymoons, so tourist destinations became crowded with newlyweds. The more honeymooners traveled somewhere, the more those places became favored by other Japanese tourists, including retirees, unmarried travelers, and parents with children. The first honeymooning paradise in Japan was Miyazaki, a prefecture in southern Kyushu that, like Hawai`i and Okinawa, has a pleasant tropical climate. After the ideal of honeymooning on a tropical paradise was established in Miyazaki, newlyweds began traveling further south, seeking paradise in Hawai`i, Guam, and Okinawa. In this article, I investigate how Okinawa became constructed as ‘Japan’s Hawai`i’ after inheriting the honeymoon boom from Miyazaki.

It's Enough to Make Any Woman Catch the Next Plane to Barbados

This article argues that a new image of the West Indies as affordable tourist paradise was consolidated from colonial tropes in the 1950s to promote the introduction of mass-market tourism in the region. Tourism is now the region's leading industry and it reproduces the economic and social relations of colonial society so closely that it warrants the term neo-colonial. However, this neo-colonial image was shaped by competing interests, Britain's loss of empire and the United States' ascent to imperial superpower on the one hand, and on the other, the US struggle for Civil Rights and West Indian nationalism – and their interaction with culture – and their interaction with Caribbean, US and British culture. This article sheds light on the construction of this image by examining two texts that contributed to it greatly: Darryl Zanuck's film Island in the Sun (1957), and Alec Waugh's 1955 novel on which it was based.

Eco-Cultural Tourism: A Tool for Environmental, Cultural and Economic Sustainability (A Case Study of Darap Village, West Sikkim)

Eco-cultural tourism is a concept where both ecological and cultural aspects of a landscape are combined together creating a tourist paradise. It is travel to destinations where both cultural and natural endowments are the prime attractions and thereby considered to be a potential strategy to support conservation of natural habitats along with economic sustainability particularly to indigenous communities. North Eastern Region of India is one of the most mesmerizing regions of the Indian subcontinent that mirrors a perfect blending of life, culture and ecology. It is a relatively unexplored and unique area in terms of both ecology and cultural diversity and is characterized by the abundance of natural endowments; pristine forests with a huge diversity of flora and fauna, enchanting hills, fast flowing streams and meandering rivers, cascading waterfalls, snowcapped mountain ranges etc. Approximately there are 65 indigenous tribes in the region along with a host of sub-tribes having their own distinctive cultures, customs and traditions preserved till today. This article tries to argue through a case study of village tourism at Darap in West Sikkim that eco-cultural tourism is a potent force for the overall economic, social and cultural development as well biodiversity conservation in the region.

Norfolk Island: History, people, environment, language by Peter Mühlhäusler and Joshua Nash (review)

Reviewed by: Norfolk Island: History, people, environment, language by Peter Mühlhäusler and Joshua Nash Kate Burridge Peter Mühlhäusler and Joshua Nash. 2012. Norfolk Island: History, people, environment, language. London: Battlebridge Publications. vi + 134 pp. ISBN13: 978-1-903292-25-9. ₤12.95, paper. Norfolk Island is a small Australian territory that sits in the South Pacific Ocean somewhere between Australia (1,700 km to the west) and New Zealand (1,100 km to the south). The focus of this book is on the lives and culture of its inhabitants, and how their experiences and their relationship with their environment have shaped the language variously known as Pitcairnese, Norfolkese, Norfolk Island English, Norfuk, and Norf’k, among many other labels. There are around 1,800 Norfolk Islanders, approximately half of whom are descended from the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives—this makes for one fascinating speech community. Norfolk Island by Peter Mühlhäusler and Joshua Nash is an unusual volume—on the one hand, a very hands-on booklet, packed with practical information about the island (how to get there, tourist attractions, accommodation advice, and so on) and, on the other hand, an academic account of many different aspects of the island and its population. With only 134 pages (and many of these pages filled with photographs), these accounts are surprisingly comprehensive, crammed with interesting facts to do with the history, environment, cultural traditions, and language of this subtropical “hellhole” and “paradise” (which label the island receives depends on the period of its history). The book has five chapters in all. The first is the guidebook section with information intended for visitors, or would-be visitors, to the island (and having spent ten days there, a visit is something I would highly recommend). Norfolk Island is a hauntingly beautiful and stunning place; this book’s many black and white photos come nowhere near capturing its natural magnificence. The next chapter offers a potted history of Norfolk Island’s journey from its “discovery” by Captain Cook in 1774, its infamous years as a penal settlement, through to the “tourist paradise” of modern Norfolk. The authors identify four distinct periods of settlement: the first settlement (1788–1814); the “planned hell” of the second convict settlement (1825–1855); the arrival in 1856 of the 194 transplanted Pitcairn Islanders; and the Melanesian Mission period (1867–1920), in particular, the locals’ resentment of this Christian settlement, but its importance nonetheless in shaping the subsequent relationship between the environmental landscape and the language. The chapter concludes with the post-mission era—the consequences of opening up to the outside world and the significance of the Pitcairn revival. These themes nicely lead to chapter 3, where the focus is squarely on the Norfolk Island inhabitants today, in particular, Pitcairner identity and self-perception. The chapter also reports on a number of curious anomalies, one being that, although administered by Australia, the island requires Australian citizens to travel with a passport; moreover, should a stay extend beyond the legal period, Australians might well find themselves in the unusual position of being simultaneously a citizen and an illegal immigrant. The chapter covers a remarkable number of disparate topics, from “political [End Page 550] exceptionalism” to “sheds,” “funerals,” and “ghost stories.”. It is a smorgasbord of different morsels of Norfolk history and life, and while the constant shift of focus is a little distracting, the details are fascinating. The final chapter (around one-third of the entire book) deals with the Norf’k language, a name that was made official by the Language Bill passed in 2004. The most detailed sections cover the historical and sociological conditions that gave rise to this offspring of English—though, as the authors emphasize, there is still much that is mysterious about the emergence of the language. True, what we know is that Norf’k represents the linguistic outcome of contact between the British English of the Bounty mutineers and Tahitian; it is a remarkable example of a contact language, since we know precisely the number of speakers who originally settled on Pitcairn in 1790, the places of origin of those speakers, and even their names. However, its subsequent...

Measures for the Village Construction and Sustainable Development of Environment: Take the Planning of Beiwu Village Shanhaiguan District as an Example

In the current large-scale construction of village planning process, village construction provides better productive, living, ecological conditions for rural areas. However, whether we can balance economic development and sustainable development of environment means whether the benefit of village development can be permanent. This paper clarified how to protect the environment during the process of strengthening village economics and to balance village construction and environment protection so as to achieve the goal of sustainable development. Taking the Beiwu Village planning of Shihe Town Shanhaiguan District Qinhuangdao City as an example, this paper explored the possibility and underlying dynamism of village construction and the sustainable development of environment. Combined with the characters of the natural and economic development of villages and adjusting measures to local conditions, this project optimized the combination of construction and environment as well as rural industries and village landscape, making Beiwu Village into “a paradise for tourists, the homes of farmers, the garden of Shanhaiguan District, the ecological garden of Qinhuangdao city”, which provided a reference for the village construction and the sustainable development of environment.

Emerson Between Faith and Doubt

Emerson Between Faith and Doubt Frank M. Meola (bio) In February 1827, Ralph Waldo Emerson walked the languid, decaying, nearly Old World streets of St. Augustine, Florida. He strolled along the beach past the ancient-looking walls of the colonial fort. He sat in shaded spots perhaps jotting notes, trying to compose a sermon. He attended a Catholic service and observed that the Spanish-speaking congregants understood neither the Latin liturgy nor the English homily. His own preaching, to visiting Northerners and Anglo Floridians, followed a Unitarian theology in which he no longer quite believed. Amid the palm trees, in the fertile abundance and soft sea air of a future tourist paradise, he meditated on life and death, the visible world, and the invisible power he wanted—had been taught by tradition—to discern. In this way, he was working through an American ambivalence. Emerson had traveled south for his health—a chronic tubercular condition that would recur throughout his life. He was feeling “a certain stricture in the right side of the chest.” He had lost weight. But he was afflicted with a more spiritual malady, a sense of drift and disorientation, so he had come on a quest of sorts, in a society becoming more and more individualized and less attached to traditions. It was a search for—all at once—renewed vigor, a sense of success, a fulfilled self, and some redefined faith not neatly packaged and available in any sect that he could name. Emerson veered between faith and doubt, his doubt a sort of catalyst for a transformed faith that had as yet taken on no coherent form. Like some health spa philosopher, he reclined in the Southern warmth, thinking, as always, crisp New England thoughts. He recorded them directly in his journal, remarkably unadorned, mostly free of local color or the usual traveler’s observations: Satisfy me beyond the possibility of doubt of the certainty of all that is told me concerning the other world and I will fulfil the conditions on which my salvation is suspended. The believer tells me he has an evidence historical & internal which make the presumption so strong that it is almost a certainty that it rests on the highest of probabilities. Yes, but change that imperfect to perfect evidence & I too will be a Christian. But now it must be admitted I am not certain that any of these things are true. (January 1827) There is no palm at the end of the mind here, to use Wallace Stevens’s phrase; the [End Page 111] mind continues its perpetual turning, arriving repeatedly at alternating and nearly opposite views: Yet I believe myself to be a moral agent of an indestructible nature & designed to stand in sublime relations to God & to my fellow men. (February 2, 1827) There is nothing between us & the infinite Universe. So our life which had its beginning a few summers ago from a sorry succession of some dull material causes, walks with God on the other side thro’ time & chance, thro’ the fall of suns & systems, through unbounded ages, unhurt & immortal. (February 16, 1827) These meditations persist through March and into April like the mental expression of his body’s rebalancing. Here in the journals, more than in the public essays, Emerson’s words reveal the inner effects of his encounters with believers and skeptics just as they help give voice to the believer-skeptic in himself. On April 6, now in Charleston, he records that his weight as of 25 March had increased to 152 pounds, and in that same entry he celebrates a new friend: I have connected myself by friendship to a man who with as ardent a love of truth as that which animates me, with a mind surpassing mine in the variety of its research, & sharpened and strengthened to an energy for action, to which I have no pretension by advantages of birth & practical connexion with mankind beyond almost all men in the world—is, yet, that which I had ever supposed a creature only of the imagination—a consistent Atheist, and a disbeliever in the existence, &, of course, in the immortality of the soul. My faith in these...

Almost in Paradise: The intrusion of tourism in the living/leisure space of local women In Waikiki

This paper usesan auto-ethnographic approach (Saukko, 2002) to integrate personal experience with the contextual social formations and historical processes affecting the lives of three women aged 76–85 yrs from three different ethnic groups (Chinese, Indian and European) living on the margins of the tourist industry in Hawaii. The intrusion of the tourist industry into what was once their living/leisure space has led these women to create a parallel living/leisure space which is within, but not part of the tourist paradise in which they live. This parallel living/leisure space was also occupied by the author, who spent three manths in Hawaii as a researcher, living in the high density tourist area of Waikiki in Hawaii and participating in many living/leisure activities with one or more of the three women as an ‘embedded’ tourist’ (Fordham, 2005.) This paper explores the interactions between the author and three kamaina (local) women as “marginal natives” (Freilich, 1977) of the Hawaiian tourist industry.

“Good Legong Dancers Were Given an Arduous Program of Training:” Music Education in Bali in the 1930s

Introduction In the 1930s, the Indonesian island of Bali was perceived as an exotic paradise for tourists and a research site for anthropologists, artists, and musicians. (1) Musical activity was one of the major topics these researchers studied and wrote about, and one of the aspects of musical life in Bali that occupied them was the teaching of music and dance. Even though few of these researchers were trained as musicians or music educators, their writings provide a picture of how music and dance were taught in that time and place. The following discussion collates and interprets comments of a number of researchers on the teaching of music and dance in Bali in the 1930s and compares that situation with current practices. While the teaching methods used in 1930s Bali are quite similar to those used now, changes in the contexts of learning have taken place. This study uses the accepted method of locating and coding references to the teaching of music and dance in texts written by researchers of the time. These texts cover anthropology, music, sociology, and travel writing; often references to music, dance, and to teaching of them are almost incidental. To present these writers' descriptions, it has been necessary to work from quotes. Quotes are provided in full so that readers can see the original information and also experience the style and scope of anthropological thinking of the 1930s. This provides an integral historical insight and foregrounds the original sources that have been used. The writers quoted in this article are American anthropologists Jane Belo and Margaret Mead, English anthropologist Gregory Bateson (married to Mead at the time), English dance writer Beryl de Zoete, German artist Walter Spies, Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias, and Canadian composer Colin McPhee (Belo's husband). While these authors were all researching in the 1930s, many of their writings did not appear until some decades later. This, and various reissued editions of their work, explains the later publication dates cited. In 1930s Bali, schooling was rudimentary and attendance was voluntary. But teaching and learning music and dance were important aspects of people's lives. Because of these factors, music education in this article is defined as activities through which Balinese people of the 1930s learned to dance or play a musical instrument. Transmission of Balinese music and dance was at that time (and largely remains today) a matter of oral/aural tradition, rote learning, and imitation of models provided by experts. This style of music education has its own characteristics which can be listed, analyzed, and compared with those used in Bali today. In the historical literature of non-Western music, such a body of information on how music and dance were taught and learned in a specific decade is rare. Most writers provide information on scales, rhythmic practices, and musical structures rather than ways in which music was passed from one person to another.(2) But writers talking about Bali did describe how music and dance were taught and learned. That they did so indicates that teaching and learning of music and dance were widespread, regular, and common occurrences; that teachers were identified and recognised for their work; that for anthropologists, the teaching of music and dance was a part of everyday Balinese life that contributed to the picture these anthropologists were keen to relay to their readers in the educated Western world; that like so many aspects of Balinese life, this activity was carried out in public, readily noticed and observable; that learning to play an instrument or to dance was valued; that the teaching and learning of music and dance could be used to exemplify aspects of Balinese day to day life, especially village social structures and their expectations and gender roles; and that identifiable characteristics of the undertaking could be observed and described which constituted an unwritten, but time honored, system for training performers. …

The Tsunami Waves and the Paradisiac Cycle: The Changing Image of the Andaman Coastal Region of Thailand

A linear temporal model has been underlying the pretsunami image of the tourist region along the Thai coast of the Andaman Sea, according to which a “pristine tourist paradise” turns, under the onslaught of tourism, irredeemably into “paradise lost.” The region suffered catastrophic destruction in the tsunami disaster of December 26, 2004. The article explores the unexpected reemergence of a paradisiac image of the beaches and islands of the region, as nature recovered, unhindered by tourists, from the impact of the disaster. Departing from Hoffman's assertion that a cyclical model underlies disaster symbolism, this article claims, that in the wake of the tsunami, the linear model of the tourist image of the region was replaced by an underlying cyclical model, consisting of a series of stages: the discovery of a “prisine paradise,” its despoliation, destruction, rebirth, regulation, and eventual redespoliation (and possible repeated destruction and rediscovery). While this model represents schematically the dynamics of the tourist image of the affected region, its wider applicability remains to be examined.